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John McWhorter, Cornel West & Robert George – Truth, Faith, and Reason in an Age of Division
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0:00 Intro
1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without
9:50 Ground News ad
11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument
20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism
22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions
32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought?
39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism”
52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else
55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment
1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth
1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen Sondheim
Recorded April 12, 2025
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